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BIOETIKA, ETIČKA TEORIJA I GRANICE MEDICINE
BIOETHICS, ETHICAL THEORY AND THE LIMITS OF MEDICINE

Author(s): Ruth Chadwick
Contributor(s): Ivan Čehok (Translator)
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Evaluation research, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: Ethical theory; medicine; Bioethics;

Summary/Abstract: In the article, the author, comrneneinq with a view of bioethics as a discipline engaged in studies of ethical, social, legal, philosophical and other issues occurring in health care and biological sciences, discusses the ethical theory in bioethics and its mostly deductive use in practice, as well as the limits of medicine determined by moral factors. The author's debate focusses on the problem of infertility and its social and ethical analysis.

  • Issue Year: 5/1996
  • Issue No: 23+24
  • Page Range: 545-557
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Croatian